Word: attained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Aiken's prose is simple, lucid, and straightforward. His choice of titles highly imaginative, and, if the test of a short story is an indelible imprint left on the mind of the reader, "Thistledown," "Silent Snow, Secret Snow," and Mr. Arcularis" will attain immortality as far as this writer is concerned...
Obviously the NSL is in need of reform. Idealistic appeals to the emotions will not satisfy the practical minded undergraduate, and it is this support which the League should attempt to attain. The abolition of activities, such as the previously mentioned ones, would be the first step in the right direction. Those really interested should hold regular meetings and discuss among themselves the steps which are necessary to bring their purpose to fruition. Not only a sane consideration of the problems facing them now but proposals for the future when they have removed the cankers certainly supply the NSL with...
Elementary courses could very well adopt this policy and attain some benefits from a plan with which they now have no connection. That three meetings a week for such courses during the Reading Period is unnecessary is admitted, and by cutting them down to two, both the student and the course would benefit...
...bulky 7,000-word White Paper from the British Government which detailed solemnly and without comment Disarmament's faltering steps into its grave since that day last October when Hitlerite Germany withdrew from the Conference and announced its withdrawal from the League rather than wait until 1938 to attain arms equality with France (TIME, Oct. 23). Eight documents paralleled the following events...
...Japan expects foreign nations to give consideration to the special situation created by the Manchuria and Shanghai incidents, and to realize that technical or financial assistance to China must attain political significance...